Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 15:51:37 -0700 From: Milo Hyson <milo@cyberlifelabs.com> To: Help Victims <fight_terrorism@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Helping victims of terror Message-ID: <20010912225151.58FCD37B40B@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20010912215547.98067.qmail@web20806.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20010912215547.98067.qmail@web20806.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Wednesday 12 September 2001 02:55 pm, Help Victims wrote: > Hi everyone. As many of you are aware, people in Egypt and > other countries celebrated the attacks on New York and > Washington. I know some of my following statements are going to be very unpopular with my fellow Americans (and this whole thread is quite off-topic from the charter of this mailing list) but here it goes anyway. I agree that the celebration of death, destruction and the victories of war is a horrendous concept. I agree that it shouldn't happen. But it does ... and we do it too. Over two hundred years ago, after fighting for our independence from Britain, we celebrated our victory, ignoring all of the people that were killed, mamed and permenantly disfigured. Grown men lying on ground in agony, crying out for their mothers like they were two years old. The fact that most of them were soldiers (or so we're told) is irrelevant. They were still human beings with thoughts, feelings and dreams. We continue to celebrate this every 4th of July. In the Gulf War, we bombed the shit out of Bahgdad killing many innocent people in the process. We celebrated our victory there too. Yesterday while watching news coverage of the attacks, I overheard someone say repeatedly that we should nuke every foreign country to "get rid of them all." He used the term "dune coon" many times, referring to people of Arab ethnicity. Please understand that I'm in no way condoning what happened yesterday morning. Like many people, I wish there were a way to turn back time and prevent it. One of my clients lost employees in the attack, people that I knew and had met with many times in the course of business. People that I will never meet again. Just realize that when it comes to war, Americans can be just as cold and heartless as the ones who carried out this attack. In the end, it doesn't matter what country you're from, what color your skin is, what language you speak or what god you pray to (if any). We're all human, with the same goal ..... life. -- Milo Hyson CyberLife Labs, LLC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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